Systems and methods for displaying supplemental content for media using augmented reality

ABSTRACT

Systems and methods are provided for displaying supplemental content for print media using augmented reality. A user profile for a user of an augmented reality device is determined. Content of the print media is searched to identify a first portion of the print media that matches the user profile and a second portion of the print media that does not match the user profile. Supplemental content is obtained based on content of the first portion of the print media. A display of the supplemental content is positioned over the second portion of the print media.

BACKGROUND

Users typically enjoy consuming content in various forms includingdigitally and physically. For example, a user may consume content on atelevision or read print media, such as newspapers, photographs andmagazines. In both cases, sometimes the content the user is consuming isrelated to other content that may interest the user. Conventionalsystems may inform the user about the related content and may evenpresent the related content together with the primary content the useris viewing. Particularly, conventional systems attempt to combine use ofaugmented reality devices with media presented in other forms (e.g.,print media) to enhance a user's experience with the media. However, inmany cases, the related content presented in the augmented realitydevice may block portions of the primary content or replace it entirely,which negatively impacts the user experience. For example, conventionalsystems may detect that the user is reading a newspaper article and mayaugment the newspaper article (which may be outdated), using augmentedreality devices, with more up-to-date content using augmented reality.Such systems, though, fail to intelligently time presentation or selectwhere to present the augmented content and simply replace the outdatedarticle the user is reading with the updated content. This results inthe user potentially losing sight of the article the user was interestedin and ends up confusing or distracting the user.

SUMMARY

Accordingly, systems and methods are provided for displayingsupplemental content for print media using augmented reality. Inparticular, systems and methods are provided for intelligentlypositioning augmented reality content related to print media overportions of the print media that are not of interest to the user. Forexample, a user may browse a physical copy of print media, such as anewspaper, while using an augmented reality device, such as augmentedreality goggles. The system may identify different sections of a pagethe user is currently reading. For example, the system may identifydifferent articles, one pertaining to sports and another to politics.The system may determine which sections contain content that is ofinterest to the user and which sections do not. For example, the systemmay determine the user likes the sports section but not the politicssection of the page. The system may identify and retrieve contentrelated to the sports column, which the user is interested in, such asvideo highlights and pictures of the sport featured in the column. Thesystem may then present the content related to the sports column overthe politics section in the augmented reality device so that none of thesections of interest to the user (e.g., the sports column content) isblocked from view.

In some embodiments, a media guidance application (implemented at leastpartially on an augmented reality device) may detect that the user iscurrently reading or viewing print media. In response, the mediaguidance application may determine a user profile for a user of theaugmented reality device. For example, the media guidance applicationmay listen to the user's voice, capture a fingerprint or retina scan,determine a size of the user's head, or request a user's logininformation to determine who the user is that is using the augmentedreality device. After confirming the user's identity, the media guidanceapplication may search an online or local database for a profileassociated with the user. The profile may specify one or more attributesthat are of interest and that are not of interest to the user. Forexample, the user profile may specify that the user likes to consumecontent about weather and sports but not about politics. The attributesmay also specify levels of interest in each or some of the attributes.

The media guidance application may process an area of the print media toidentify first and second portions of the print media within the area.For example, the media guidance application may capture an image of apage that the user is currently reading of the newspaper to identifydifferent articles in the page. In some implementations, the mediaguidance application may send the captured image to a local or remoteimage processing engine. The image processing engine may be a dedicatedhardware device for performing image processing or may be a generalpurpose processor (GPU) programmed to execute an image processingalgorithm. The image processing engine may analyze the image to detectan object separating a first collection of text from a second collectionof text. For example, the image processing engine may identify wheretext is on the newspaper page that is completely or partially borderedby horizontal or vertical bars or lines. Each area of text that isbordered partially or completely by the bars or lines may be defined asa different collection of text. The image processing engine maydetermine whether the first and second collections of text includerespective headings. For example, the image processing engine mayanalyze the fonts in each collection of text to determine whether thereare different sized fonts. In response to detecting that a givencollection of text has a majority of text in a font of a threshold sizethat is less than a font size of other text in the same collection, theimage processing engine may associate the given collection of text withone article in the page. Particularly, the image processing engine maylabel or store an indication that the given collection pertains to thesame article in the page. Similarly, in response to detecting that thesecond collection of text has a majority of text in a font of athreshold size that is less than a font size of other text in the secondcollection, the image processing engine may associate the secondcollection of text with a second article in the page. Particularly, theimage processing engine may label or store an indication that the secondcollection pertains to the second article in the page.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may generate a firstset of keywords associated with the first portion and a second set ofkeywords associated with the second portion. For example, the mediaguidance application may search text in the first article and text inthe second article of the newspaper page to select nouns, verbs andpredetermined words. The media guidance application may store theselected nouns, verbs and predetermined words that appear in the text ofthe first article as a first set of keywords that identify the firstarticle. The media guidance application may search an online or localdatabase using some or all of the selected words to identify andretrieve related words to add to the first set of keywords. The mediaguidance application may perform a similar analysis and word selectionfor each other article on the page to generate second, third and fourthsets of keywords. The media guidance application may generatecharacteristics that represent each of the sets of keywords and maycompare the characteristics to the attributes stored in the userprofile.

The media guidance application may determine, based on comparing thekeywords and/or their characteristics to the user profile, that thefirst portion of the print media matches the user profile and the secondportion of the print media does not match the user profile. For example,the media guidance application may generate a characterization of thefirst article (the first portion) that identifies the first article asbeing related to sports, and the media guidance application may generatea characterization of the second article (the second portion) thatidentifies the second article as being related to politics. The mediaguidance application may compare the characterizations to the userprofile to determine that, because the user profile specifies the userlikes sports but not politics, the first article matches the userprofile and the second article does not.

The media guidance application may search a database based on the firstset of keywords to obtain supplemental content related to the firstportion of the print media. For example, the media guidance applicationmay select the sports article of the newspaper that matches the userprofile for searching for supplemental content or content related to theselected article. The media guidance application may search one or morewebsites, social networks, or remote databases for content havingmetadata that matches a threshold number of the first set of keywords ofthe sports article. For example, if the sports article is about the NewYork Knicks v. Chicago Bulls game, the media guidance application maysearch a sports source (e.g., ESPN) for updated standings, photographs,and videos related to the game and/or may search a social networkassociated with the user for posts or comments about the game submittedby other users. Any matching content may be selected as the supplementalcontent related to the article. The media guidance application maysearch metadata of media generated by the user (e.g., a user'sphotographs stored on the user's mobile phone) to identify metadata thatrelates to the game. For example, the media guidance application mayidentify a time period associated with the game and a location and maydetermine whether any photographs stored on the user's phone areassociated with metadata that matches the time period and location ofthe game. In particular, the user may have attended the game and takenpictures of the game. Each picture may be geo-tagged using GPS with thegame's location and may be associated with a date and time of the game.As a result, the pictures may match the game's time period and locationand may be selected as being related to the game for use as thesupplemental content.

There are many different ways for the media guidance application toidentify supplemental content. In some implementations, the mediaguidance application may determine that a keyword of the first set ofkeywords relates to a geographical area. For example, the media guidanceapplication may determine that the sports article about the New YorkKnicks v. Chicago Bulls game relates to the Chicago area because thetitle of the game indicates that the New York Knicks were playing orvisiting the Chicago Bulls, who are located in the Chicago area. Themedia guidance application may access a database of a collection ofmedia assets generated by the user. For example, the media guidanceapplication may access a remote storage (e.g., iCloud drive) of the userto identify a set of pictures and videos the user has taken in the past.The media guidance application may retrieve metadata associated with thecollection of media assets. For example, the media guidance applicationmay retrieve GPS information for each media asset in the collection. Themedia guidance application may identify a given media asset associatedwith metadata that matches the geographical location by determining thatthe GPS information corresponds to a location that is within a thresholdrange of the Chicago area. In response to identifying that the givenmedia asset corresponds to the geographical area of the first set ofkeywords, the media guidance application may select that given mediaasset as the supplemental content for the article about New York Knicksv. Chicago Bulls game.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may identify aplurality of media assets associated with the geographical area of thesports article. Some of the media assets may be generated by the user(e.g., stored on the remote or local storage of the user) and some maybe generated by other users or other content sources. The media guidanceapplication may add the plurality of media assets and the given mediaasset to a playlist and may provide the playlist as the supplementalcontent. The playlist may represent an ordered list of media assets thatare presented simultaneously or in a given sequence to a userautomatically.

In some embodiments, the first and second portions of the print mediamay be in a first page of the print media. In such circumstances, themedia guidance application may access from a database a list of contentin the print media. For example, the media guidance application mayretrieve from a database a list of all of the articles that are in theprint media and their respective page numbers or locations. The mediaguidance application may perform this operation by retrieving a name ofthe print media (a name of the newspaper) and date and search a databaseusing these terms for retrieving the list of content in the print media.The media guidance application may identify from the list of contentother content that is related to the first set of keywords. For example,the media guidance application may identify another article that is inthe print media that relates to the article about the New York Knicks v.Chicago Bulls game. The media guidance application may determine thatthe other content is located in a second page of the print media. Forexample, the media guidance application may determine that the otherarticle is on page 6 while the user is currently viewing page 2 of theprint media. The media guidance application may provide as thesupplemental content the other content and a reference to the secondpage of the print media (e.g., page 6). For example, the media guidanceapplication may retrieve some or all of the portions of the relatedarticle from page 6 for presentation together with the article about theNew York Knicks v. Chicago Bulls game that is on page 2. The mediaguidance application may present an indication that the related articlecame from page 6 of the print media.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may replace aportion of the article that is of interest to the user based on acurrent location of the user. For example, if the user is browsing anewspaper from Palm Beach County in New York, the media guidanceapplication may replace geographically specific information about PalmBeach County with information about New York. For example, the mediaguidance application may determine the user is interested in the weathersection of the newspaper. But the media guidance application maydetermine that the user is currently in New York and that the weathersection pertains to Palm Beach County. In such circumstances, the mediaguidance application may replace the weather information presented aboutPalm Beach County with weather information local to the user in NewYork. In particular, the media guidance application may determine thatthe print media is associated with a first geographical location. Forexample, the media guidance application may identify a title of theprint media and determine based on words in the title (e.g., Palm BeachPost) that the print media relates to a first geographical location(e.g., Palm Beach). The media guidance application may determine thatthe first set of keywords associated with the first portion areassociated with the first geographical location. For example, the mediaguidance application may detect weather information in the first articleabout weather that is related to the location Palm Beach. The mediaguidance application may detect that the user is currently in a secondgeographical location. For example, the media guidance application mayobtain GPS information from the augmented reality device the user isusing and determine that the location (e.g., New York) corresponding tothe obtained GPS information does not match the location associated withthe first set of keywords (e.g., Palm Beach). The media guidanceapplication may identify subject matter related to the first set ofkeywords. For example, the media guidance application may identify thatthe first set of keywords include weather information. In response, themedia guidance application may retrieve content associated with thesubject matter and the second geographical location. For example, themedia guidance application may search a weather database for weatherinformation corresponding to the user's location (e.g., New York). Themedia guidance application may generate for display using the augmentedreality device the retrieved content in the first portion replacing atleast a portion of information in the first portion. For example, themedia guidance application may replace temperature specified in thefirst portion of the print media relating to the Palm Beach locationwith temperature information local to the user (e.g., New Yorktemperature).

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may provide the userwith a magnified version of content in the print media the user isreading using the augmented reality device. In such circumstances, themagnified version may be positioned at a current reading location in thefirst portion may obscure some content that is in the first portion ormay be presented in the second portion that is not of interest to theuser. In particular, the media guidance application may detect a digitof the user positioned over the first portion. For example, the mediaguidance application may detect the user's finger is pointing to a wordor section in the first portion. In response, the media guidanceapplication may enhance the region pointed at by the user's finger bymagnifying the content in that portion. The media guidance applicationmay capture an image within an area of where the user is pointing theirfinger and locally digitally magnify the content in the image.Alternatively, the media guidance application may retrieve from a remotedatabase a magnified version of the entire portion the user is pointingtheir finger at and present the retrieved magnified version alongside oron top of the portion over which the user's finger is positioned.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may identify symbolsin a given portion of the print media that reference a specific remotedatabase or website from which to retrieve supplemental content. In suchcircumstances, in addition to or alternative to retrieving supplementalcontent based on keywords and/or geographical location, the mediaguidance application may process the symbol and retrieve contentspecifically referenced by the symbol. For example, the media guidanceapplication may detect a QR code in the first portion of the printmedia. The media guidance application may capture an image of the QRcode and obtain supplemental content from a server based on informationobtained from the QR code. For example, the QR code may reference aparticular website and in such cases, the media guidance application mayaccess the website referenced by the QR code and obtain an image of thewebsite as the supplemental content for display in augmented realityover another portion of the print media.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may position adisplay of the supplemental content using the augmented reality deviceover the second portion of the print media. For example, the mediaguidance application may present some or all of the identifiedsupplemental content over the politics article of the newspaper page theuser is reading using the augmented reality device. As the user isreading the newspaper page and viewing the page through the augmentedreality device, portions of the page that are not of interest to theuser (e.g., politics) are replaced and appear to have content related toportions that are of interest to the user (e.g., sports). In particular,as the user is reading an article about the New York Knicks v. ChicagoBulls game in the newspaper page, the media guidance application mayreplace a politics article in the page with pictures, comments, videosor other related content pertaining to the New York Knicks v. ChicagoBulls game.

In some implementations, the media guidance application mayautomatically obtain the supplemental content in response to determiningthat a gaze of the user through the augmented reality device is focusedon the first portion. For example, the media guidance application mayuse a camera to analyze a position of the user's eyes relative to theprint media. In response to detecting that the user's eyes arepositioned over the first portion, the media guidance application mayautomatically retrieve and present the supplemental content.

These unconventional ways to present supplemental content for sectionsof print media the user is reading provide a non-intrusive,non-distracting, and a more efficient use of space in augmented realitythan conventional systems. Particularly, the augmented realitytechnology allows for much more content to be simultaneously provided toa user in different forms but in doing so introduces the problem ofdistracting and confusing users of such systems. Conventional systemssimply ignore this problem and blindly present the additional content inthe augmented reality in ways that confuse the user and block contentthe user is actually trying to consume. Embodiments of this disclosureprovide particular ways to address the problem of presenting thesupplemental content in augmented reality for print media the user isconsuming by intelligently selecting when and where to present thecontent in ways that do not distract or confuse the user. Theunconventional way in which the present disclosure addresses theparticular problem arising out of the augmented reality space is toidentify which sections of the print media within the augmented realityview are not of interest to the user and presenting the content, relatedto sections of the print media that are of interest, in thoseuninteresting sections.

It should be noted that the systems, methods, apparatuses, and/oraspects described above may be applied to, or used in accordance with,other systems, methods, apparatuses, and/or aspects described in thisdisclosure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other objects and advantages of the disclosure will beapparent upon consideration of the following detailed description, takenin conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which like referencecharacters refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

FIG. 1 shows an exemplary print media in accordance with someembodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 2 shows an exemplary print media enhanced using augmented realityin accordance with some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 3 shows an illustrative display screen that may be used to providemedia guidance data in accordance with some embodiments of thedisclosure;

FIG. 4 shows an illustrative display screen that may be used to providemedia guidance data in accordance with some embodiments of thedisclosure;

FIG. 5 shows a generalized embodiment of a device in accordance withsome embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 6 shows a specific implementation of user devices in accordancewith some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart representing a process for enhancing print mediawith an augmented reality device in accordance with some embodiments ofthe disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart representing a process for enhancing print mediawith an augmented reality device in accordance with some embodiments ofthe disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart representing a process for processing an area ofprint media in accordance with some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 10 is a flowchart representing a process for searching a databasebased on a set of keywords from print media in accordance with someembodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart representing a process for searching a databasebased on a set of keywords from print media in accordance with someembodiments of the disclosure; and

FIG. 12 is a flowchart representing a process for presentinggeographically specific supplemental content over print media inaccordance with some embodiments of the disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Accordingly, systems and methods are provided for displayingsupplemental content for print media using augmented reality. Inparticular, systems and methods are provided for intelligentlypositioning augmented reality content related to print media overportions of the print media that are not of interest to the user. Forexample, a user may browse a physical copy of print media, such as anewspaper, while using an augmented reality device, such as augmentedreality goggles. The system may identify different sections of a pagethe user is currently reading. For example, the system may identifydifferent articles, one pertaining to sports and another to politics.The system may determine which sections contain content that is ofinterest to the user and which sections do not. For example, the systemmay determine the user likes the sports section but not the politicssection of the page. The system may identify and retrieve contentrelated to the sports column, which the user is interested in, such asvideo highlights and pictures of the sport featured in the column. Thesystem may then present the content related to the sports column overthe politics section in the augmented reality device so that none of thesections of interest to the user (e.g., the sports column content) isblocked from view.

The amount of content available to users in any given content deliverysystem can be substantial. Consequently, many users desire a form ofmedia guidance through an interface that allows users to efficientlynavigate content selections and easily identify content that they maydesire. An application that provides such guidance is referred to hereinas an interactive media guidance application or, sometimes, a mediaguidance application or a guidance application.

Interactive media guidance applications may take various forms dependingon the content for which they provide guidance. One typical type ofmedia guidance application is an interactive television program guide.Interactive television program guides (sometimes referred to aselectronic program guides) are well-known guidance applications that,among other things, allow users to navigate among and locate many typesof content or media assets. Interactive media guidance applications maygenerate graphical user interface screens that enable a user to navigateamong, locate and select content. As referred to herein, the terms“media asset” and “content” should be understood to mean anelectronically consumable user asset, such as television programming, aswell as pay-per-view programs, on-demand programs (as in video-on-demand(VOD) systems), Internet content (e.g., streaming content, downloadablecontent, Webcasts, etc.), video clips, audio, content information,pictures, rotating images, documents, playlists, websites, articles,books, electronic books, blogs, chat sessions, social media,applications, games, and/or any other media or multimedia and/orcombination of the same. Guidance applications also allow users tonavigate among and locate content. As referred to herein, the term“multimedia” should be understood to mean content that utilizes at leasttwo different content forms described above, for example, text, audio,images, video, or interactivity content forms. Content may be recorded,played, displayed or accessed by user equipment devices, but can also bepart of a live performance.

The media guidance application and/or any instructions for performingany of the embodiments discussed herein may be encoded on computerreadable media. Computer readable media includes any media capable ofstoring data. The computer readable media may be transitory, including,but not limited to, propagating electrical or electromagnetic signals,or may be non-transitory including, but not limited to, volatile andnon-volatile computer memory or storage devices such as a hard disk,floppy disk, USB drive, DVD, CD, media cards, register memory, processorcaches, Random Access Memory (“RAM”), etc.

FIG. 1 shows an exemplary print media 100 in accordance with someembodiments of the disclosure. Print media 100 may include any physicaldocument that contains media or information. For example, print media100 may include a newspaper, magazine, comic book, books, text books,articles, journals, etc. Print media 100 may include multiple sections,each with a different article or column. A page of print media 100 mayinclude any number of different portions, segments, articles or snippetseach pertaining to the same or a different topic, category or subjectmatter. For example, print media 100 includes a first portion 110 andsecond portion 120. First portion 110 may include an article or snippetabout the weather and second portion 120 may include an article orsnippet about politics.

In some embodiments, a media guidance application (implemented at leastpartially on an augmented reality device) may detect that the user iscurrently reading or viewing print media 100. In response, the mediaguidance application may determine a user profile for a user of theaugmented reality device. For example, the media guidance applicationmay listen to the user's voice, capture a fingerprint or retina scan,determine a size of the user's head, or request a user's logininformation to determine who the user is that is using the augmentedreality device. The media guidance application may obtain anycombination of these unique user inputs and search a database todetermine an identity of the user. For example, the media guidanceapplication may search a voice recognition database for a voicesignature that matches a snippet of the user's voice. Once the voicesignature is found, a user identity associated with the voice signaturemay be retrieved.

After confirming or obtaining the user's identity, the media guidanceapplication may search an online or local database for a profileassociated with the user. For example, the media guidance applicationmay transmit a query to a profile database with the user's name or otherform of identity to retrieve a profile associated with that identity.The profile may specify one or more attributes that are of interest andthat are not of interest to the user. For example, the user profile mayspecify that the user likes to consume content about weather and sportsbut not about politics. The attributes may also specify levels ofinterest in each or some of the attributes. In some implementations, theprofile may be dynamically updated automatically by the media guidanceapplication to reflect current user interests and/or may be manuallypopulated by the user. In some circumstances, the media guidanceapplication may present a series of questions to the user and, based onresponses, the media guidance application may generate a profile for theuser. In some circumstances, the media guidance application may presenta list of attributes and receive user input specifying a level of likeor dislike for each attribute.

The media guidance application may process an area of print media 100 toidentify first and second portions 110 and 120 of print media 100 withinthe area. For example, the media guidance application may capture animage of a page that the user is currently reading of the newspaper toidentify different articles in the page. In some implementations, themedia guidance application may send the captured image to a local orremote image processing engine. The image processing engine may be adedicated hardware device for performing image processing or may be ageneral purpose processor (GPU) programmed to execute an imageprocessing algorithm. The image processing engine may analyze the imageto detect an object 130 separating a first collection of text from asecond collection of text. For example, the image processing engine mayidentify where text is on the newspaper page that is completely orpartially bordered by horizontal or vertical bars or lines. Each area oftext that is bordered partially or completely by the bars or lines maybe defined as a different collection of text. The image processingengine may determine whether the first and second collections of textinclude respective headings 122. For example, the image processingengine may analyze the fonts in each collection of text to determinewhether there are different sized fonts. In response to detecting that agiven collection of text has a majority of text in a font of a thresholdsize that is less than a font size of other text in the same collection,the image processing engine may associate the given collection of textwith one article in the page. Particularly, the image processing enginemay label or store an indication that the given collection pertains tothe same article in the page. Similarly, in response to detecting thatthe second collection of text has a majority of text in a font of athreshold size that is less than a font size of other text in the secondcollection, the image processing engine may associate the secondcollection of text with a second article in the page. Particularly, theimage processing engine may label or store an indication that the secondcollection pertains to the second article in the page.

For example, an image of print media 100 may be captured and sent to alocal or remote image processing engine. The image processing engine mayidentify a collection of text 124 that is the same size. The imageprocessing engine may determine a size of text 124 and compare that sizeto a size of heading 122. In response to determining that the size oftext 124 is more than a threshold amount (more than 50 percent) smallerthan the size of text 124 and that text 124 is immediately adjacent(e.g., under or to the side of) heading 122, the image processing enginemay determine that text 124 includes content that is associated withheading 122. In addition, the image processing engine may identifyobjects 130 and 132 as objects that are adjacent to and border a regionthat includes heading 122 and text 124. In response to identifyingobjects 130 and 132, the image processing engine may determine that thecontent bordered by these objects corresponds to a same article (e.g.,the article having a heading “University brings $26,000 bill”). Theimage processing engine may compute a size of every text font thatappears in the image of print media 100. The image processing engine maycompare the sizes of every text font and may determine a largest size ofthe text font. The image processing engine may determine that the textwith the largest font size is a title of print media 100. The imageprocessing engine may similarly process other regions of the image ofprint media 100 to identify second portion 110 and other portions. Forexample, the image processing engine may determine that the word“WEATHER” is in a larger font size than the word “MONDAY” that isadjacent to the word “WEATHER” in a section of the image of print media100. Also, a border 140 is adjacent to both of the words. Accordingly,image processing engine may determine that the content adjacent toborder 140 including the words “WEATHER” and “MONDAY” corresponds to thesame article about weather.

In some cases, the image processing engine may also detect an electronicreference object 112 (e.g., a QR code) in a portion of print media 100.For example, the image processing engine may detect object 112 in secondportion 110 and may associate that reference with that portion forsubsequent retrieval of supplemental information.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may generate a firstset of keywords associated with the first portion and a second set ofkeywords associated with the second portion. For example, the mediaguidance application may search text in the first article and text inthe second article of the newspaper page to select nouns, verbs andpredetermined words. For example, the media guidance application mayselect the words weather, rain, and palm beach from portion 110 and thewords university, trump, and politics from second portion 120.

The media guidance application may store the selected nouns, verbs andpredetermined words that appear in the text of the first article as afirst set of keywords that identify the first article. The mediaguidance application may search an online or local database using someor all of the selected words to identify and retrieve related words toadd to the first set of keywords. The media guidance application mayperform a similar analysis and word selection for each other article onthe page to generate second, third and fourth sets of keywords. Themedia guidance application may generate characteristics that representeach of the sets of keywords and may compare the characteristics to theattributes stored in the user profile. For example, the media guidanceapplication may generate a characteristic of weather for first portion110 and a characteristic of politics for second portion 120.

The media guidance application may determine, based on comparing thekeywords and/or their characteristics to the user profile, that thefirst portion of the print media matches the user profile and the secondportion of the print media does not match the user profile. For example,the media guidance application may generate a characterization of thefirst article (the first portion) that identifies the first article asbeing related to sports, and the media guidance application may generatea characterization of the second article (the second portion) thatidentifies the second article as being related to politics. The mediaguidance application may compare the characterizations to the userprofile to determine that, because the user profile specifies the userlikes sports but not politics, the first article matches the userprofile and the second article does not.

The media guidance application may search a database based on the firstset of keywords to obtain supplemental content related to the firstportion of the print media. For example, the media guidance applicationmay select the sports article of the newspaper that matches the userprofile for searching for supplemental content or content related to theselected article. The media guidance application may search one or morewebsites, social networks, or remote databases for content havingmetadata that matches a threshold number of the first set of keywords ofthe sports article. For example, if the sports article is about the NewYork Knicks v. Chicago Bulls game, the media guidance application maysearch a sports source (e.g., ESPN) for updated standings, photographs,and videos related to the game and/or may search a social networkassociated with the user for posts or comments about the game submittedby other users. Any matching content may be selected as the supplementalcontent related to the article. The media guidance application maysearch metadata of media generated by the user (e.g., a user'sphotographs stored on the user's mobile phone) to identify metadata thatrelates to the game. For example, the media guidance application mayidentify a time period associated with the game and a location and maydetermine whether any photographs stored on the user's phone areassociated with metadata that matches the time period and location ofthe game. In particular, the user may have attended the game and takenpictures of the game. Each picture may be geo-tagged using GPS with thegame's location and may be associated with a date and time of the game.As a result, the pictures may match the game's time period and locationand may be selected as being related to the game for use as thesupplemental content.

There are many different ways for the media guidance application toidentify supplemental content. In some implementations, the mediaguidance application may determine that a keyword of the first set ofkeywords relates to a geographical area. For example, the media guidanceapplication may determine that the sports article about the New YorkKnicks v. Chicago Bulls game relates to the Chicago area because thetitle of the game indicates that the New York Knicks were playing orvisiting the Chicago Bulls, who are located in the Chicago area. Themedia guidance application may access a database of a collection ofmedia assets generated by the user. For example, the media guidanceapplication may access a remote storage (e.g., iCloud drive) of the userto identify a set of pictures and videos the user has taken in the past.The media guidance application may retrieve metadata associated with thecollection of media assets. For example, the media guidance applicationmay retrieve GPS information for each media asset in the collection. Themedia guidance application may identify a given media asset associatedwith metadata that matches the geographical location by determining thatthe GPS information corresponds to a location that is within a thresholdrange of the Chicago area. In response to identifying that the givenmedia asset corresponds to the geographical area of the first set ofkeywords, the media guidance application may select that given mediaasset as the supplemental content for the article about New York Knicksv. Chicago Bulls game.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may identify aplurality of media assets associated with the geographical area of thesports article. Some of the media assets may be generated by the user(e.g., stored on the remote or local storage of the user) and some maybe generated by other users or other content sources. The media guidanceapplication may add the plurality of media assets and the given mediaasset to a playlist and may provide the playlist as the supplementalcontent. The playlist may represent an ordered list of media assets thatare presented simultaneously or in a given sequence to a userautomatically.

In some embodiments, the first and second portions of the print mediamay be in a first page of the print media. In such circumstances, themedia guidance application may access from a database a list of contentin the print media. For example, the media guidance application mayretrieve from a database a list of all of the articles that are in theprint media and their respective page numbers or locations. The mediaguidance application may perform this operation by retrieving a name ofthe print media (a name of the newspaper) and date and search a databaseusing these terms for retrieving the list of content in the print media.The media guidance application may identify from the list of contentother content that is related to the first set of keywords. For example,the media guidance application may identify another article that is inthe print media that relates to the article about the New York Knicks v.Chicago Bulls game. The media guidance application may determine thatthe other content is located in a second page of the print media. Forexample, the media guidance application may determine that the anotherarticle is on page 6 while the user is currently viewing page 2 of theprint media. The media guidance application may provide as thesupplemental content the other content and a reference to the secondpage of the print media (e.g., page 6). For example, the media guidanceapplication may retrieve some or all of the portions of the relatedarticle from page 6 for presentation together with the article about theNew York Knicks v. Chicago Bulls game that is on page 2. The mediaguidance application may present an indication that the related articlecame from page 6 of the print media.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may replace aportion of the article that is of interest to the user based on acurrent location of the user. For example, if the user is browsing anewspaper from Palm Beach County in New York, the media guidanceapplication may replace geographically specific information about PalmBeach County with information about New York. For example, the mediaguidance application may determine the user is interested in the weathersection of the newspaper. But the media guidance application maydetermine that the user is currently in New York and that the weathersection pertains to Palm Beach County. In such circumstances, the mediaguidance application may replace the weather information presented aboutPalm Beach County with weather information local to the user in NewYork. In particular, the media guidance application may determine thatthe print media is associated with a first geographical location. Forexample, the media guidance application may identify a title of theprint media and determine based on words in the title (e.g., Palm BeachPost) that the print media relates to a first geographical location(e.g., Palm Beach). The media guidance application may determine thatthe first set of keywords associated with the first portion areassociated with the first geographical location. For example, the mediaguidance application may detect weather information in the first articleabout weather that is related to the location Palm Beach. The mediaguidance application may detect that the user is currently in a secondgeographical location. For example, the media guidance application mayobtain GPS information from the augmented reality device the user isusing and determine that the location (e.g., New York) corresponding tothe obtained GPS information does not match the location associated withthe first set of keywords (e.g., Palm Beach). The media guidanceapplication may identify subject matter related to the first set ofkeywords. For example, the media guidance application may identify thatthe first set of keywords include weather information. In response, themedia guidance application may retrieve content associated with thesubject matter and the second geographical location. For example, themedia guidance application may search a weather database for weatherinformation corresponding to the user's location (e.g., New York). Themedia guidance application may generate for display using the augmentedreality device the retrieved content in the first portion replacing atleast a portion of information in the first portion. For example, themedia guidance application may replace the temperature informationspecified in the first portion of the print media relating to the PalmBeach location with temperature information local to the user (e.g., NewYork temperature).

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may provide the userwith a magnified version of content in the print media the user isreading using the augmented reality device. In such circumstances, themagnified version may be positioned at a current reading location in thefirst portion which may obscure some content that is in the firstportion or may be presented in the second portion that is not ofinterest to the user. In particular, the media guidance application maydetect a digit of the user positioned over the first portion. Forexample, the media guidance application may detect the user's finger ispointing to a word or section in the first portion. In response, themedia guidance application may enhance the region pointed at by theuser's finger by magnifying the content in that portion. The mediaguidance application may capture an image within an area of where theuser is pointing their finger and locally digitally magnify the contentin the image. Alternatively, the media guidance application may retrievefrom a remote database a magnified version of the entire portion theuser is pointing their finger at and present the retrieved magnifiedversion alongside or on top of the portion over which the user's fingeris positioned.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may identify symbolsin a given portion of the print media that reference a specific remotedatabase or website from which to retrieve supplemental content. In suchcircumstances, in addition to or alternative to retrieving supplementalcontent based on keywords and/or geographical location, the mediaguidance application may process the symbol and retrieve contentspecifically referenced by the symbol. For example, the media guidanceapplication may detect a QR code in the first portion of the printmedia. The media guidance application may capture an image of the QRcode and obtain supplemental content from a server based on informationobtained from the QR code. For example, the QR code may reference aparticular website and in such cases, the media guidance application mayaccess the website referenced by the QR code and obtain an image of thewebsite as the supplemental content for display in augmented realityover another portion of the print media.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may position adisplay of the supplemental content using the augmented reality deviceover the second portion of the print media. FIG. 2 shows an exemplaryprint media 200 enhanced using augmented reality in accordance with someembodiments of the disclosure. Specifically, a user may wear or use anaugmented reality device 230 to view print media 200. Print media 200may be the same as print media 100 but is shown from the view ofaugmented reality device 230. In particular, print media 200 representshow print media 100 is modified using augmented reality via device 230.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application may determine thatportion 120 (FIG. 1 ) includes content that does not match a userprofile and that portion 110 includes content that matches the userprofile. When print media 100 is viewed through augmented reality device230, the media guidance application replaces content shown in portion120 with supplemental content 220 related to portion 110.

For example, the media guidance application may present some or all ofthe identified supplemental content over the politics article portion120 of the newspaper page the user is reading using the augmentedreality device. As the user is reading the newspaper page and viewingthe page through the augmented reality device, portions of the page thatare not of interest to the user (e.g., politics) are replaced and appearto have content related to portions that are of interest to the user(e.g., sports). In particular, as the user is reading an article aboutthe New York Knicks v. Chicago Bulls game in the newspaper page, themedia guidance application may replace a politics article in the pagewith pictures, comments, videos or other related content pertaining tothe New York Knicks v. Chicago Bulls game.

In some implementations, the media guidance application replacesportions of portion 110 that relate to a geographic location that is notthe current geographic location of the user with content 210 specific tothe user's current geographic location. For example, portion 110 may bedetermined to relate to weather specific to Palm Beach (e.g., rain witha high of 77 and a low of 65). The media guidance application maydetermine that device 230 is currently in a New York region based on GPSinformation of device 230. Accordingly, the media guidance applicationmay replace the weather information in portion 110 with local weatherinformation. Specifically, the media guidance application may access aweather database and retrieve weather specific to the user's current GPSlocation as determined from device 230. The media guidance applicationmay present local information (e.g., snow with a high of 27 and low of15) in place of the weather information associated with the printedmedia. Accordingly, the media guidance application dynamically updates,using augmented reality, static portions of the printed media withinformation local to the user.

In some implementations, the media guidance application mayautomatically obtain the supplemental content in response to determiningthat a gaze of the user through the augmented reality device is focusedon the first portion. For example, the media guidance application mayuse a camera to analyze a position of the user's eyes relative to theprint media. In response to detecting that the user's eyes arepositioned over the first portion, the media guidance application mayautomatically retrieve and present the supplemental content.

FIGS. 3-4 show illustrative display screens that may be used to providemedia guidance data. The display screens shown in FIGS. 3-4 may beimplemented on any suitable user equipment device or platform. While thedisplays of FIGS. 3-4 are illustrated as full screen displays, they mayalso be fully or partially overlaid over content being displayed. A usermay indicate a desire to access content information by selecting aselectable option provided in a display screen (e.g., a menu option, alistings option, an icon, a hyperlink, etc.) or pressing a dedicatedbutton (e.g., a GUIDE button) on a remote control or other user inputinterface or device. In response to the user's indication, the mediaguidance application may provide a display screen with media guidancedata organized in one of several ways, such as by time and channel in agrid, by time, by channel, by source, by content type, by category(e.g., movies, sports, news, children, or other categories ofprogramming), or other predefined, user-defined, or other organizationcriteria.

FIG. 3 shows illustrative grid of a program listings display 300arranged by time and channel that also enables access to different typesof content in a single display. Display 300 may include grid 302 with:(1) a column of channel/content type identifiers 304, where eachchannel/content type identifier (which is a cell in the column)identifies a different channel or content type available; and (2) a rowof time identifiers 306, where each time identifier (which is a cell inthe row) identifies a time block of programming. Grid 302 also includescells of program listings, such as program listing 308, where eachlisting provides the title of the program provided on the listing'sassociated channel and time. With a user input device, a user can selectprogram listings by moving highlight region 310. Information relating tothe program listing selected by highlight region 310 may be provided inprogram information region 312. Region 312 may include, for example, theprogram title, the program description, the time the program is provided(if applicable), the channel the program is on (if applicable), theprogram's rating, and other desired information.

In addition to providing access to linear programming (e.g., contentthat is scheduled to be transmitted to a plurality of user equipmentdevices at a predetermined time and is provided according to aschedule), the media guidance application also provides access tonon-linear programming (e.g., content accessible to a user equipmentdevice at any time and is not provided according to a schedule).Non-linear programming may include content from different contentsources including on-demand content (e.g., VOD), Internet content (e.g.,streaming media, downloadable media, etc.), locally stored content(e.g., content stored on any user equipment device described above orother storage device), or other time-independent content. On-demandcontent may include movies or any other content provided by a particularcontent provider (e.g., HBO On Demand providing “The Sopranos” and “CurbYour Enthusiasm”). HBO ON DEMAND is a service mark owned by Time WarnerCompany L.P. et al. and THE SOPRANOS and CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM aretrademarks owned by the Home Box Office, Inc. Internet content mayinclude web events, such as a chat session or Webcast, or contentavailable on-demand as streaming content or downloadable content throughan Internet web site or other Internet access (e.g. FTP).

Grid 302 may provide media guidance data for non-linear programmingincluding on-demand listing 314, recorded content listing 316, andInternet content listing 318. A display combining media guidance datafor content from different types of content sources is sometimesreferred to as a “mixed-media” display. Various permutations of thetypes of media guidance data that may be displayed that are differentthan display 300 may be based on user selection or guidance applicationdefinition (e.g., a display of only recorded and broadcast listings,only on-demand and broadcast listings, etc.). As illustrated, listings314, 316, and 318 are shown as spanning the entire time block displayedin grid 302 to indicate that selection of these listings may provideaccess to a display dedicated to on-demand listings, recorded listings,or Internet listings, respectively. In some embodiments, listings forthese content types may be included directly in grid 302. Additionalmedia guidance data may be displayed in response to the user selectingone of the navigational icons 320. (Pressing an arrow key on a userinput device may affect the display in a similar manner as selectingnavigational icons 320.)

Display 300 may also include video region 322, and options region 326.Video region 322 may allow the user to view and/or preview programs thatare currently available, will be available, or were available to theuser. The content of video region 322 may correspond to, or beindependent from, one of the listings displayed in grid 302. Griddisplays including a video region are sometimes referred to aspicture-in-guide (PIG) displays. PIG displays and their functionalitiesare described in greater detail in Satterfield et al. U.S. Pat. No.6,564,378, issued May 13, 2003 and Yuen et al. U.S. Pat. No. 6,239,794,issued May 29, 2001, which are hereby incorporated by reference hereinin their entireties. PIG displays may be included in other mediaguidance application display screens of the embodiments describedherein.

Options region 326 may allow the user to access different types ofcontent, media guidance application displays, and/or media guidanceapplication features. Options region 326 may be part of display 300 (andother display screens described herein), or may be invoked by a user byselecting an on-screen option or pressing a dedicated or assignablebutton on a user input device. The selectable options within optionsregion 326 may concern features related to program listings in grid 302or may include options available from a main menu display. Featuresrelated to program listings may include searching for other air times orways of receiving a program, recording a program, enabling seriesrecording of a program, setting program and/or channel as a favorite,purchasing a program, or other features. Options available from a mainmenu display may include search options, VOD options, parental controloptions, Internet options, cloud-based options, device synchronizationoptions, second screen device options, options to access various typesof media guidance data displays, options to subscribe to a premiumservice, options to edit a user's profile, options to access a browseoverlay, or other options.

The media guidance application may be personalized based on a user'spreferences. A personalized media guidance application allows a user tocustomize displays and features to create a personalized “experience”with the media guidance application. This personalized experience may becreated by allowing a user to input these customizations and/or by themedia guidance application monitoring user activity to determine varioususer preferences. Users may access their personalized guidanceapplication by logging in or otherwise identifying themselves to theguidance application. Customization of the media guidance applicationmay be made in accordance with a user profile. The customizations mayinclude varying presentation schemes (e.g., color scheme of displays,font size of text, etc.), aspects of content listings displayed (e.g.,only HDTV or only 3D programming, user-specified broadcast channelsbased on favorite channel selections, re-ordering the display ofchannels, recommended content, etc.), desired recording features (e.g.,recording or series recordings for particular users, recording quality,etc.), parental control settings, customized presentation of Internetcontent (e.g., presentation of social media content, e-mail,electronically delivered articles, etc.) and other desiredcustomizations.

The media guidance application may allow a user to provide user profileinformation or may automatically compile user profile information. Themedia guidance application may, for example, monitor the content theuser accesses and/or other interactions the user may have with theguidance application. Additionally, the media guidance application mayobtain all or part of other user profiles that are related to aparticular user (e.g., from other web sites on the Internet the useraccesses, such as www.Tivo.com, from other media guidance applicationsthe user accesses, from other interactive applications the useraccesses, from another user equipment device of the user, etc.), and/orobtain information about the user from other sources that the mediaguidance application may access. As a result, a user can be providedwith a unified guidance application experience across the user'sdifferent user equipment devices. This type of user experience isdescribed in greater detail below in connection with FIG. 6 . Additionalpersonalized media guidance application features are described ingreater detail in Ellis et al., U.S. Patent Application Publication No.2005/0251827, filed Jul. 11, 2005, Boyer et al., U.S. Pat. No.7,165,098, issued Jan. 16, 2007, and Ellis et al., U.S. PatentApplication Publication No. 2002/0174430, filed Feb. 21, 2002, which arehereby incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.

Another display arrangement for providing media guidance is shown inFIG. 4 . Video mosaic display 400 includes selectable options 402 forcontent information organized based on content type, genre, and/or otherorganization criteria. In display 400, television listings option 404 isselected, thus providing listings 406, 408, 410, and 412 as broadcastprogram listings. In display 400 the listings may provide graphicalimages including cover art, still images from the content, video clippreviews, live video from the content, or other types of content thatindicate to a user the content being described by the media guidancedata in the listing. Each of the graphical listings may also beaccompanied by text to provide further information about the contentassociated with the listing. For example, listing 408 may include morethan one portion, including media portion 414 and text portion 416.Media portion 414 and/or text portion 416 may be selectable to viewcontent in full-screen or to view information related to the contentdisplayed in media portion 414 (e.g., to view listings for the channelthat the video is displayed on).

The listings in display 400 are of different sizes (i.e., listing 406 islarger than listings 408, 410, and 412), but if desired, all thelistings may be the same size. Listings may be of different sizes orgraphically accentuated to indicate degrees of interest to the user orto emphasize certain content, as desired by the content provider orbased on user preferences. Various systems and methods for graphicallyaccentuating content listings are discussed in, for example, Yates, U.S.Patent Application Publication No. 2010/0153885, filed Nov. 12, 2009,which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.

Users may access content and the media guidance application (and itsdisplay screens described above and below) from one or more of theiruser equipment devices. FIG. 5 shows a generalized embodiment ofillustrative user equipment device 500. More specific implementations ofuser equipment devices are discussed below in connection with FIG. 6 .User equipment device 500 may receive content and data via input/output(hereinafter “I/O”) path 502. I/O path 502 may provide content (e.g.,broadcast programming, on-demand programming, Internet content, contentavailable over a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN),and/or other content) and data to control circuitry 504, which includesprocessing circuitry 506 and storage 508. Control circuitry 504 may beused to send and receive commands, requests, and other suitable datausing I/O path 502. I/O path 502 may connect control circuitry 504 (andspecifically processing circuitry 506) to one or more communicationspaths (described below). I/O functions may be provided by one or more ofthese communications paths, but are shown as a single path in FIG. 5 toavoid overcomplicating the drawing.

Control circuitry 504 may be based on any suitable processing circuitrysuch as processing circuitry 506. As referred to herein, processingcircuitry should be understood to mean circuitry based on one or moremicroprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors,programmable logic devices, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs),application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), etc., and may includea multi-core processor (e.g., dual-core, quad-core, hexa-core, or anysuitable number of cores) or supercomputer. In some embodiments,processing circuitry may be distributed across multiple separateprocessors or processing units, for example, multiple of the same typeof processing units (e.g., two Intel Core i7 processors) or multipledifferent processors (e.g., an Intel Core i5 processor and an Intel Corei7 processor). In some embodiments, control circuitry 504 executesinstructions for a media guidance application stored in memory (i.e.,storage 508). Specifically, control circuitry 504 may be instructed bythe media guidance application to perform the functions discussed aboveand below. For example, the media guidance application may provideinstructions to control circuitry 504 to generate the media guidancedisplays. In some implementations, any action performed by controlcircuitry 504 may be based on instructions received from the mediaguidance application.

In client-server based embodiments, control circuitry 504 may includecommunications circuitry suitable for communicating with a guidanceapplication server or other networks or servers. The instructions forcarrying out the above mentioned functionality may be stored on theguidance application server. Communications circuitry may include acable modem, an integrated services digital network (ISDN) modem, adigital subscriber line (DSL) modem, a telephone modem, Ethernet card,or a wireless modem for communications with other equipment, or anyother suitable communications circuitry. Such communications may involvethe Internet or any other suitable communications networks or paths(which is described in more detail in connection with FIG. 6 ). Inaddition, communications circuitry may include circuitry that enablespeer-to-peer communication of user equipment devices, or communicationof user equipment devices in locations remote from each other (describedin more detail below).

Memory may be an electronic storage device provided as storage 508 thatis part of control circuitry 504. As referred to herein, the phrase“electronic storage device” or “storage device” should be understood tomean any device for storing electronic data, computer software, orfirmware, such as random-access memory, read-only memory, hard drives,optical drives, digital video disc (DVD) recorders, compact disc (CD)recorders, BLU-RAY disc (BD) recorders, BLU-RAY 3D disc recorders,digital video recorders (DVR, sometimes called a personal videorecorder, or PVR), solid state devices, quantum storage devices, gamingconsoles, gaming media, or any other suitable fixed or removable storagedevices, and/or any combination of the same. Storage 508 may be used tostore various types of content described herein as well as mediaguidance data described above. Nonvolatile memory may also be used(e.g., to launch a boot-up routine and other instructions). Cloud-basedstorage, described in relation to FIG. 6 , may be used to supplementstorage 508 or instead of storage 508.

Control circuitry 504 may include video generating circuitry and tuningcircuitry, such as one or more analog tuners, one or more MPEG-2decoders or other digital decoding circuitry, high-definition tuners, orany other suitable tuning or video circuits or combinations of suchcircuits. Encoding circuitry (e.g., for converting over-the-air, analog,or digital signals to MPEG signals for storage) may also be provided.Control circuitry 504 may also include scaler circuitry for upconvertingand downconverting content into the preferred output format of the userequipment 500. Circuitry 504 may also include digital-to-analogconverter circuitry and analog-to-digital converter circuitry forconverting between digital and analog signals. The tuning and encodingcircuitry may be used by the user equipment device to receive and todisplay, to play, or to record content. The tuning and encodingcircuitry may also be used to receive guidance data. The circuitrydescribed herein, including for example, the tuning, video generating,encoding, decoding, encrypting, decrypting, scaler, and analog/digitalcircuitry, may be implemented using software running on one or moregeneral purpose or specialized processors. Multiple tuners may beprovided to handle simultaneous tuning functions (e.g., watch and recordfunctions, picture-in-picture (PIP) functions, multiple-tuner recording,etc.). If storage 508 is provided as a separate device from userequipment 500, the tuning and encoding circuitry (including multipletuners) may be associated with storage 508.

A user may send instructions to control circuitry 504 using user inputinterface 510. User input interface 510 may be any suitable userinterface, such as a remote control, mouse, trackball, keypad, keyboard,touch screen, touchpad, stylus input, joystick, voice recognitioninterface, or other user input interfaces. Display 512 may be providedas a stand-alone device or integrated with other elements of userequipment device 500. For example, display 512 may be a touchscreen ortouch-sensitive display. In such circumstances, user input interface 510may be integrated with or combined with display 512. Display 512 may beone or more of a monitor, a television, a liquid crystal display (LCD)for a mobile device, amorphous silicon display, low temperature polysilicon display, electronic ink display, electrophoretic display, activematrix display, electro-wetting display, electrofluidic display, cathoderay tube display, light-emitting diode display, electroluminescentdisplay, plasma display panel, high-performance addressing display,thin-film transistor display, organic light-emitting diode display,surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED), laser television,carbon nanotubes, quantum dot display, interferometric modulatordisplay, or any other suitable equipment for displaying visual images.In some embodiments, display 512 may be HDTV-capable. In someembodiments, display 512 may be a 3D display, and the interactive mediaguidance application and any suitable content may be displayed in 3D. Avideo card or graphics card may generate the output to the display 512.The video card may offer various functions such as accelerated renderingof 3D scenes and 2D graphics, MPEG-2/MPEG-4 decoding, TV output, or theability to connect multiple monitors. The video card may be anyprocessing circuitry described above in relation to control circuitry504. The video card may be integrated with the control circuitry 504.Speakers 514 may be provided as integrated with other elements of userequipment device 500 or may be stand-alone units. The audio component ofvideos and other content displayed on display 512 may be played throughspeakers 514. In some embodiments, the audio may be distributed to areceiver (not shown), which processes and outputs the audio via speakers514.

The guidance application may be implemented using any suitablearchitecture. For example, it may be a stand-alone applicationwholly-implemented on user equipment device 500. In such an approach,instructions of the application are stored locally (e.g., in storage508), and data for use by the application is downloaded on a periodicbasis (e.g., from an out-of-band feed, from an Internet resource, orusing another suitable approach). Control circuitry 504 may retrieveinstructions of the application from storage 508 and process theinstructions to generate any of the displays discussed herein. Based onthe processed instructions, control circuitry 504 may determine whataction to perform when input is received from input interface 510. Forexample, movement of a cursor on a display up/down may be indicated bythe processed instructions when input interface 510 indicates that anup/down button was selected.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application is a client-serverbased application. Data for use by a thick or thin client implemented onuser equipment device 500 is retrieved on-demand by issuing requests toa server remote to the user equipment device 500. In one example of aclient-server based guidance application, control circuitry 504 runs aweb browser that interprets web pages provided by a remote server. Forexample, the remote server may store the instructions for theapplication in a storage device. The remote server may process thestored instructions using circuitry (e.g., control circuitry 504) andgenerate the displays discussed above and below. The client device mayreceive the displays generated by the remote server and may display thecontent of the displays locally on equipment device 500. This way, theprocessing of the instructions is performed remotely by the server whilethe resulting displays are provided locally on equipment device 500.Equipment device 500 may receive inputs from the user via inputinterface 510 and transmit those inputs to the remote server forprocessing and generating the corresponding displays. For example,equipment device 500 may transmit a communication to the remote serverindicating that an up/down button was selected via input interface 510.The remote server may process instructions in accordance with that inputand generate a display of the application corresponding to the input(e.g., a display that moves a cursor up/down). The generated display isthen transmitted to equipment device 500 for presentation to the user.

In some embodiments, the media guidance application is downloaded andinterpreted or otherwise run by an interpreter or virtual machine (runby control circuitry 504). In some embodiments, the guidance applicationmay be encoded in the ETV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF), received bycontrol circuitry 504 as part of a suitable feed, and interpreted by auser agent running on control circuitry 504. For example, the guidanceapplication may be an EBIF application. In some embodiments, theguidance application may be defined by a series of JAVA-based files thatare received and run by a local virtual machine or other suitablemiddleware executed by control circuitry 504. In some of suchembodiments (e.g., those employing MPEG-2 or other digital mediaencoding schemes), the guidance application may be, for example, encodedand transmitted in an MPEG-2 object carousel with the MPEG audio andvideo packets of a program.

User equipment device 500 of FIG. 5 can be implemented in system 600 ofFIG. 6 as user television equipment 602, user computer equipment 604,wireless user communications device 606, or any other type of userequipment suitable for accessing content, such as a non-portable gamingmachine. For simplicity, these devices may be referred to hereincollectively as user equipment or user equipment devices, and may besubstantially similar to user equipment devices described above.

User equipment devices, on which a media guidance application may beimplemented, may function as a standalone device or may be part of anetwork of devices. Various network configurations of devices may beimplemented and are discussed in more detail below.

A user equipment device utilizing at least some of the system featuresdescribed above in connection with FIG. 5 may not be classified solelyas user television equipment 602, user computer equipment 604, or awireless user communications device 606. For example, user televisionequipment 602 may, like some user computer equipment 604, beInternet-enabled allowing for access to Internet content, while usercomputer equipment 604 may, like some television equipment 602, includea tuner allowing for access to television programming. The mediaguidance application may have the same layout on various different typesof user equipment or may be tailored to the display capabilities of theuser equipment. For example, on user computer equipment 604, theguidance application may be provided as a web site accessed by a webbrowser. In another example, the guidance application may be scaled downfor wireless user communications devices 606.

A user equipment device utilizing at least some of the system featuresdescribed above in connection with FIG. 5 may also be characterized asand embodied in an augmented reality device. Augmented reality devicesmay take various forms. For example, an augmented reality device may bea pair of goggles worn by a user. The goggles capture real worldsurroundings of the user that are within a field of view and supplementor augment those surroundings with digital material that can only beseen in a display of the goggles and not in the real world. The gogglesmay include a screen that digitally replicates what a user is looking atand enhances the real world surroundings with digital content. Forexample, a user may look through the goggles at a real world buildingand the goggles may add a name to the building so it appears to the useras if the name is on the building in real life but the name can only beseen through the goggles. Another implementation of augmented realitydevices can be in a mobile phone with a screen. A user may hold thephone and position the phone over a real world object (e.g., anewspaper) and the screen of the phone shows the real world object andadds digital material that can only be seen on the screen of the phone.In particular, a camera of the phone captures the real worldsurroundings at which the phone is positioned over and the processor ofthe phone displays the real world surroundings in the screen of thephone and enhances those surroundings with digital content. For example,the phone may capture an image of a newspaper the user is reading andmay replace one of the portions of the newspapers (e.g., an article thatis not of interest to the user) with supplemental content that relatesto another portion (e.g., an article that is of interest to the user).

In system 600, there is typically more than one of each type of userequipment device but only one of each is shown in FIG. 6 to avoidovercomplicating the drawing. In addition, each user may utilize morethan one type of user equipment device and also more than one of eachtype of user equipment device.

In some embodiments, a user equipment device (e.g., user televisionequipment 602, user computer equipment 604, wireless user communicationsdevice 606) may be referred to as a “second screen device.” For example,a second screen device may supplement content presented on a first userequipment device. The content presented on the second screen device maybe any suitable content that supplements the content presented on thefirst device. In some embodiments, the second screen device provides aninterface for adjusting settings and display preferences of the firstdevice. In some embodiments, the second screen device is configured forinteracting with other second screen devices or for interacting with asocial network. The second screen device can be located in the same roomas the first device, a different room from the first device but in thesame house or building, or in a different building from the firstdevice.

The user may also set various settings to maintain consistent mediaguidance application settings across in-home devices and remote devices.Settings include those described herein, as well as channel and programfavorites, programming preferences that the guidance applicationutilizes to make programming recommendations, display preferences, andother desirable guidance settings. For example, if a user sets a channelas a favorite on, for example, the web site www.Tivo.com on theirpersonal computer at their office, the same channel would appear as afavorite on the user's in-home devices (e.g., user television equipmentand user computer equipment) as well as the user's mobile devices, ifdesired. Therefore, changes made on one user equipment device can changethe guidance experience on another user equipment device, regardless ofwhether they are the same or a different type of user equipment device.In addition, the changes made may be based on settings input by a user,as well as user activity monitored by the guidance application.

The user equipment devices may be coupled to communications network 614.Namely, user television equipment 602, user computer equipment 604, andwireless user communications device 606 are coupled to communicationsnetwork 614 via communications paths 608, 610, and 612, respectively.Communications network 614 may be one or more networks including theInternet, a mobile phone network, mobile voice or data network (e.g., a4G or LTE network), cable network, public switched telephone network, orother types of communications network or combinations of communicationsnetworks. Paths 608, 610, and 612 may separately or together include oneor more communications paths, such as, a satellite path, a fiber-opticpath, a cable path, a path that supports Internet communications (e.g.,IPTV), free-space connections (e.g., for broadcast or other wirelesssignals), or any other suitable wired or wireless communications path orcombination of such paths. Path 612 is drawn with dotted lines toindicate that in the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 6 it is awireless path and paths 608 and 610 are drawn as solid lines to indicatethey are wired paths (although these paths may be wireless paths, ifdesired). Communications with the user equipment devices may be providedby one or more of these communications paths, but are shown as a singlepath in FIG. 6 to avoid overcomplicating the drawing.

Although communications paths are not drawn between user equipmentdevices, these devices may communicate directly with each other viacommunication paths, such as those described above in connection withpaths 608, 610, and 612, as well as other short-range point-to-pointcommunication paths, such as USB cables, IEEE 1394 cables, wirelesspaths (e.g., Bluetooth, infrared, IEEE 802-11×, etc.), or othershort-range communication via wired or wireless paths. BLUETOOTH is acertification mark owned by Bluetooth SIG, INC. The user equipmentdevices may also communicate with each other directly through anindirect path via communications network 614.

System 600 includes content source 616 and media guidance data source618 coupled to communications network 614 via communication paths 620and 622, respectively. Paths 620 and 622 may include any of thecommunication paths described above in connection with paths 608, 610,and 612. Communications with the content source 616 and media guidancedata source 618 may be exchanged over one or more communications paths,but are shown as a single path in FIG. 6 to avoid overcomplicating thedrawing. In addition, there may be more than one of each of contentsource 616 and media guidance data source 618, but only one of each isshown in FIG. 6 to avoid overcomplicating the drawing. (The differenttypes of each of these sources are discussed below.) If desired, contentsource 616 and media guidance data source 618 may be integrated as onesource device. Although communications between sources 616 and 618 withuser equipment devices 602, 604, and 606 are shown as throughcommunications network 614, in some embodiments, sources 616 and 618 maycommunicate directly with user equipment devices 602, 604, and 606 viacommunication paths (not shown) such as those described above inconnection with paths 608, 610, and 612.

Content source 616 may include one or more types of content distributionequipment including a television distribution facility, cable systemheadend, satellite distribution facility, programming sources (e.g.,television broadcasters, such as NBC, ABC, HBO, etc.), intermediatedistribution facilities and/or servers, Internet providers, on-demandmedia servers, and other content providers. NBC is a trademark owned bythe National Broadcasting Company, Inc., ABC is a trademark owned by theAmerican Broadcasting Company, Inc., and HBO is a trademark owned by theHome Box Office, Inc. Content source 616 may be the originator ofcontent (e.g., a television broadcaster, a Webcast provider, etc.) ormay not be the originator of content (e.g., an on-demand contentprovider, an Internet provider of content of broadcast programs fordownloading, etc.). Content source 616 may include cable sources,satellite providers, on-demand providers, Internet providers,over-the-top content providers, or other providers of content. Contentsource 616 may also include a remote media server used to storedifferent types of content (including video content selected by a user),in a location remote from any of the user equipment devices. Systems andmethods for remote storage of content, and providing remotely storedcontent to user equipment are discussed in greater detail in connectionwith Ellis et al., U.S. Pat. No. 7,761,892, issued Jul. 20, 2010, whichis hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.

Media guidance data source 618 may provide media guidance data, such asthe media guidance data described above. Media guidance data may beprovided to the user equipment devices using any suitable approach. Insome embodiments, the guidance application may be a stand-aloneinteractive television program guide that receives program guide datavia a data feed (e.g., a continuous feed or trickle feed). Programschedule data and other guidance data may be provided to the userequipment on a television channel sideband, using an in-band digitalsignal, using an out-of-band digital signal, or by any other suitabledata transmission technique. Program schedule data and other mediaguidance data may be provided to user equipment on multiple analog ordigital television channels.

In some embodiments, guidance data from media guidance data source 618may be provided to users' equipment using a client-server approach. Forexample, a user equipment device may pull media guidance data from aserver, or a server may push media guidance data to a user equipmentdevice. In some embodiments, a guidance application client residing onthe user's equipment may initiate sessions with source 618 to obtainguidance data when needed, e.g., when the guidance data is out of dateor when the user equipment device receives a request from the user toreceive data. Media guidance may be provided to the user equipment withany suitable frequency (e.g., continuously, daily, a user-specifiedperiod of time, a system-specified period of time, in response to arequest from user equipment, etc.). Media guidance data source 618 mayprovide user equipment devices 602, 604, and 606 the media guidanceapplication itself or software updates for the media guidanceapplication.

In some embodiments, the media guidance data may include viewer data.For example, the viewer data may include current and/or historical useractivity information (e.g., what content the user typically watches,what times of day the user watches content, whether the user interactswith a social network, at what times the user interacts with a socialnetwork to post information, what types of content the user typicallywatches (e.g., pay TV or free TV), mood, brain activity information,etc.). The media guidance data may also include subscription data. Forexample, the subscription data may identify to which sources or servicesa given user subscribes and/or to which sources or services the givenuser has previously subscribed but later terminated access (e.g.,whether the user subscribes to premium channels, whether the user hasadded a premium level of services, whether the user has increasedInternet speed). In some embodiments, the viewer data and/or thesubscription data may identify patterns of a given user for a period ofmore than one year. The media guidance data may include a model (e.g., asurvivor model) used for generating a score that indicates a likelihooda given user will terminate access to a service/source. For example, themedia guidance application may process the viewer data with thesubscription data using the model to generate a value or score thatindicates a likelihood of whether the given user will terminate accessto a particular service or source. In particular, a higher score mayindicate a higher level of confidence that the user will terminateaccess to a particular service or source. Based on the score, the mediaguidance application may generate promotions that entice the user tokeep the particular service or source indicated by the score as one towhich the user will likely terminate access.

Media guidance applications may be, for example, stand-aloneapplications implemented on user equipment devices. For example, themedia guidance application may be implemented as software or a set ofexecutable instructions which may be stored in storage 508, and executedby control circuitry 504 of a user equipment device 500. In someembodiments, media guidance applications may be client-serverapplications where only a client application resides on the userequipment device, and server application resides on a remote server. Forexample, media guidance applications may be implemented partially as aclient application on control circuitry 504 of user equipment device 500and partially on a remote server as a server application (e.g., mediaguidance data source 618) running on control circuitry of the remoteserver. When executed by control circuitry of the remote server (such asmedia guidance data source 618), the media guidance application mayinstruct the control circuitry to generate the guidance applicationdisplays and transmit the generated displays to the user equipmentdevices. The server application may instruct the control circuitry ofthe media guidance data source 618 to transmit data for storage on theuser equipment. The client application may instruct control circuitry ofthe receiving user equipment to generate the guidance applicationdisplays.

Content and/or media guidance data delivered to user equipment devices602, 604, and 606 may be over-the-top (OTT) content. OTT contentdelivery allows Internet-enabled user devices, including any userequipment device described above, to receive content that is transferredover the Internet, including any content described above, in addition tocontent received over cable or satellite connections. OTT content isdelivered via an Internet connection provided by an Internet serviceprovider (ISP), but a third party distributes the content. The ISP maynot be responsible for the viewing abilities, copyrights, orredistribution of the content, and may only transfer IP packets providedby the OTT content provider. Examples of OTT content providers includeYOUTUBE, NETFLIX, and HULU, which provide audio and video via IPpackets. Youtube is a trademark owned by Google Inc., Netflix is atrademark owned by Netflix Inc., and Hulu is a trademark owned by Hulu,LLC. OTT content providers may additionally or alternatively providemedia guidance data described above. In addition to content and/or mediaguidance data, providers of OTT content can distribute media guidanceapplications (e.g., web-based applications or cloud-based applications),or the content can be displayed by media guidance applications stored onthe user equipment device.

Media guidance system 600 is intended to illustrate a number ofapproaches, or network configurations, by which user equipment devicesand sources of content and guidance data may communicate with each otherfor the purpose of accessing content and providing media guidance. Theembodiments described herein may be applied in any one or a subset ofthese approaches, or in a system employing other approaches fordelivering content and providing media guidance. The following fourapproaches provide specific illustrations of the generalized example ofFIG. 6 .

In one approach, user equipment devices may communicate with each otherwithin a home network. User equipment devices can communicate with eachother directly via short-range point-to-point communication schemesdescribed above, via indirect paths through a hub or other similardevice provided on a home network, or via communications network 614.Each of the multiple individuals in a single home may operate differentuser equipment devices on the home network. As a result, it may bedesirable for various media guidance information or settings to becommunicated between the different user equipment devices. For example,it may be desirable for users to maintain consistent media guidanceapplication settings on different user equipment devices within a homenetwork, as described in greater detail in Ellis et al., U.S. PatentPublication No. 2005/0251827, filed Jul. 11, 2005. Different types ofuser equipment devices in a home network may also communicate with eachother to transmit content. For example, a user may transmit content fromuser computer equipment to a portable video player or portable musicplayer.

In a second approach, users may have multiple types of user equipment bywhich they access content and obtain media guidance. For example, someusers may have home networks that are accessed by in-home and mobiledevices. Users may control in-home devices via a media guidanceapplication implemented on a remote device. For example, users mayaccess an online media guidance application on a website via a personalcomputer at their office, or a mobile device such as a PDA orweb-enabled mobile telephone. The user may set various settings (e.g.,recordings, reminders, or other settings) on the online guidanceapplication to control the user's in-home equipment. The online guidemay control the user's equipment directly, or by communicating with amedia guidance application on the user's in-home equipment. Varioussystems and methods for user equipment devices communicating, where theuser equipment devices are in locations remote from each other, isdiscussed in, for example, Ellis et al., U.S. Pat. No. 8,046,801, issuedOct. 25, 2011, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in itsentirety.

In a third approach, users of user equipment devices inside and outsidea home can use their media guidance application to communicate directlywith content source 616 to access content. Specifically, within a home,users of user television equipment 602 and user computer equipment 604may access the media guidance application to navigate among and locatedesirable content. Users may also access the media guidance applicationoutside of the home using wireless user communications devices 606 tonavigate among and locate desirable content.

In a fourth approach, user equipment devices may operate in a cloudcomputing environment to access cloud services. In a cloud computingenvironment, various types of computing services for content sharing,storage or distribution (e.g., video sharing sites or social networkingsites) are provided by a collection of network-accessible computing andstorage resources, referred to as “the cloud.” For example, the cloudcan include a collection of server computing devices, which may belocated centrally or at distributed locations, that provide cloud-basedservices to various types of users and devices connected via a networksuch as the Internet via communications network 614. These cloudresources may include one or more content sources 616 and one or moremedia guidance data sources 618. In addition or in the alternative, theremote computing sites may include other user equipment devices, such asuser television equipment 602, user computer equipment 604, and wirelessuser communications device 606. For example, the other user equipmentdevices may provide access to a stored copy of a video or a streamedvideo. In such embodiments, user equipment devices may operate in apeer-to-peer manner without communicating with a central server.

The cloud provides access to services, such as content storage, contentsharing, or social networking services, among other examples, as well asaccess to any content described above, for user equipment devices.Services can be provided in the cloud through cloud computing serviceproviders, or through other providers of online services. For example,the cloud-based services can include a content storage service, acontent sharing site, a social networking site, or other services viawhich user-sourced content is distributed for viewing by others onconnected devices. These cloud-based services may allow a user equipmentdevice to store content to the cloud and to receive content from thecloud rather than storing content locally and accessing locally-storedcontent.

A user may use various content capture devices, such as camcorders,digital cameras with video mode, audio recorders, mobile phones, andhandheld computing devices, to record content. The user can uploadcontent to a content storage service on the cloud either directly, forexample, from user computer equipment 604 or wireless usercommunications device 606 having content capture feature. Alternatively,the user can first transfer the content to a user equipment device, suchas user computer equipment 604. The user equipment device storing thecontent uploads the content to the cloud using a data transmissionservice on communications network 614. In some embodiments, the userequipment device itself is a cloud resource, and other user equipmentdevices can access the content directly from the user equipment deviceon which the user stored the content.

Cloud resources may be accessed by a user equipment device using, forexample, a web browser, a media guidance application, a desktopapplication, a mobile application, and/or any combination of accessapplications of the same. The user equipment device may be a cloudclient that relies on cloud computing for application delivery, or theuser equipment device may have some functionality without access tocloud resources. For example, some applications running on the userequipment device may be cloud applications, i.e., applications deliveredas a service over the Internet, while other applications may be storedand run on the user equipment device. In some embodiments, a user devicemay receive content from multiple cloud resources simultaneously. Forexample, a user device can stream audio from one cloud resource whiledownloading content from a second cloud resource. Or a user device candownload content from multiple cloud resources for more efficientdownloading. In some embodiments, user equipment devices can use cloudresources for processing operations such as the processing operationsperformed by processing circuitry described in relation to FIG. 5 .

As referred herein, the term “in response to” refers to initiated as aresult of. For example, a first action being performed in response to asecond action may include interstitial steps between the first actionand the second action. As referred herein, the term “directly inresponse to” refers to caused by. For example, a first action beingperformed directly in response to a second action may not includeinterstitial steps between the first action and the second action.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a detailed illustrative process for enhancingprint media with an augmented reality device in accordance with someembodiments of the disclosure. It should be noted that process 700 orany step thereof could be performed on, or provided by, any of thedevices shown in FIGS. 5-6 . For example, process 700 may be executed bycontrol circuitry 504 (FIG. 5 ) as instructed by a media guidanceapplication implemented on a user device (e.g., augmented reality deviceembodied in user equipment devices 602, 604, and/or 606 (FIG. 6 )) inorder to enhance print media with supplemental content. In addition, oneor more steps of process 700 may be incorporated into or combined withone or more steps of any other process or embodiment (e.g., as describedin relation to FIGS. 1, 2, and 7-12 ).

At step 710, a user profile for a user of an augmented reality device isdetermined. For example, control circuitry 504 may detect that a user isusing augmented reality device 230 to view print media 200. In response,control circuitry 504 may capture a fingerprint, retina image, distancebetween the eyes/ears, request login information or perform any otherprocess that enables control circuitry 504 to uniquely identify the userof device 230. Control circuitry 504 may query a profile database usingsome or all of the identity information captured from the user toretrieve a profile for the user. The profile may specify preferences andlevels of interest the user has in one or more attributes.

At step 720, content of the print media is searched to identify a firstportion of the print media that matches the user profile and a secondportion of the print media that does not match the user profile. Forexample, control circuitry 504 may perform image processing on a page ofprint media 200 being viewed by the user to identify which portionscorrespond to different articles. For example, control circuitry 504 maydetermine that first portion 110 corresponds to an article about weatherand that second portion 120 corresponds to an article about politics.Control circuitry 504 may determine from the retrieved profile that theuser prefers weather over sports and in response may identify that firstportion 110 matches the user profile and second portion 120 does notmatch the user profile.

At step 730, supplemental content is obtained based on content of thefirst portion of the print media. For example, control circuitry 504 maydetermine that first portion 110 represents weather information about acity called Palm Beach. In response, control circuitry 504 may searchfor supplemental content about the weather in Palm Beach and/orsupplemental content about the city itself. For example, controlcircuitry 504 may retrieve media (e.g., pictures and/videos) generatedby the user when the user visited the city of Palm Beach, posts orcomments made by the user's friends relating to the city of Palm Beach,up-to-date or real-time information about events (e.g., sporting events)or teams from that region. To do so, control circuitry 504 may transmitan identifier of the user and a keyword from first portion 110 (e.g.,the name of the city Palm Beach) to a local or remote database to obtainmedia related to first portion 110.

At step 740, a display of the supplemental content is positioned overthe second portion of the print media. For example, control circuitry504 may replace all or some of the content/images in second portion 120with the supplemental content retrieved that relates to first portion110. For example, control circuitry 504 may present media 220 or aplaylist of content in place of the content that is in second portion120. This media 220 may include pictures taken by the user when the uservisited the city mentioned in first portion 110, posts or comments madeby friends of the user on a social network about the city and/or anyother supplemental content discussed above. Media 220 that replaces thecontent in second portion 120 can only be seen through augmented realitydevice 230, and to another user who is not viewing print media 200through device 230, print media 200 looks like print media 100 wherenone of the content on the print media is modified.

It is contemplated that the steps or descriptions of FIG. 7 may be usedwith any other embodiment of this disclosure. In addition, the steps anddescriptions described in relation to FIG. 7 may be done in alternativeorders or in parallel to further the purposes of this disclosure. Forexample, each of these steps may be performed in any order or inparallel or substantially simultaneously to reduce lag or increase thespeed of the system or method. Any of these steps may also be skipped oromitted from the process. Furthermore, it should be noted that any ofthe devices or equipment discussed in relation to FIGS. 5-6 could beused to perform one or more of the steps in FIG. 7 .

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a detailed illustrative process for enhancingprint media with an augmented reality device in accordance with someembodiments of the disclosure. It should be noted that process 800 orany step thereof could be performed on, or provided by, any of thedevices shown in FIGS. 5-6 . For example, process 800 may be executed bycontrol circuitry 504 (FIG. 5 ) as instructed by a media guidanceapplication implemented on a user device (e.g., augmented reality deviceembodied in user equipment devices 602, 604, and/or 606 (FIG. 6 )) inorder to enhance print media with supplemental content. In addition, oneor more steps of process 800 may be incorporated into or combined withone or more steps of any other process or embodiment (e.g., as describedin relation to FIGS. 1, 2, and 7-12 ).

At step 810, a user profile for a user of an augmented reality device isdetermined. For example, control circuitry 504 may detect that a user isusing augmented reality device 230 to view print media 200. In response,control circuitry 504 may capture a fingerprint, retina image, distancebetween the eyes/ears, request login information or perform any otherprocess that enables control circuitry 504 to uniquely identify the userof device 230. Control circuitry 504 may query a profile database usingsome or all of the identity information captured from the user toretrieve a profile for the user. The profile may specify preferences andlevels of interest the user has in one or more attributes.

At step 820, an area of the print media is processed to identify firstand second portions of the print media within the area. For example,control circuitry 504 may capture an image of print media 100 and sendthe image to an image processing engine to identify which portionscorrespond to articles. The image processing engine may use edgedetection and text analysis to determine where borders and objects existthat separate different collections of text and where headings exist.After identifying different collections of text representing differentarticles, the image processing engine may return to control circuitry504 an identification of the location and borders of first portion 110and second portion 120. Using the location and borders, controlcircuitry 504 may ensure that supplemental content is only containedwithin a region corresponding to a given portion and does not overlapwith any other region.

At step 830, a first set of keywords associated with the first portionand a second set of keywords associated with the second portion aregenerated. For example, the image processing engine may return tocontrol circuitry 504 the text of each portion. The image processingengine may perform automatic character recognition to obtain a digitalrepresentation of the text contained in each portion. Control circuitry504 may select nouns, pronouns, verbs, predetermined words, etc. fromeach portion to generate first and second sets of keywords forrespective first and second portions 110 and 120.

At step 840, the first and second sets of keywords are compared to theuser profile. Control circuitry 504 may compute one or morecharacterizations of the keywords in the first and second sets ofkeywords. For example, control circuitry 504 may transmit the keywordsin the first set of keywords to a database and receive one or morecharacterizations of the text. For example, the first set of keywordsmay include the words weather, Palm Beach, and rain and the database maydetermine these words are all associated with weather. Accordingly, thedatabase may characterize the first set of words with weather. A similaranalysis may be performed for the second set of keywords to determinethat these keywords are characterized as politics. Control circuitry 504may compare the characterizations of the sets of keywords with theprofile to determine which sets of keywords match the attributes in theprofile.

At step 850, a determination is made that the first portion of the printmedia matches the user profile and the second portion of the print mediadoes not match the user profile. For example, in response to determiningthat the first set of keywords matches the profile, control circuitry504 may determine that the first portion matches the profile and inresponse to determining that the second set of keywords does not matchthe profile, control circuitry 504 may determine that the second portiondoes not match the profile.

At step 860, a determination is made as to whether a digit of a user ispositioned over the first portion. In response to determining that thedigit is positioned over the first portion, the process proceeds to step870, otherwise the process proceeds to step 880. For example, controlcircuitry 504 may detect a user's finger in the view of augmentedreality device 230. Control circuitry 504 may compute a distance betweenthe finger and the first/second portion of print media 200. In responseto determining that a distance between the finger and the first portion110 is less than a threshold (e.g., less than 3 centimeters), controlcircuitry 504 may determine that the user's finger or digit ispositioned over first portion 110. In some implementations, instead of auser's digit, control circuitry 504 may perform the same analysis for astencil or stylus.

At step 870, a magnified version of the content in the first portion isretrieved as supplemental content. For example, control circuitry 504may select a region within range of the digit or stylus or stencil offirst portion 110. The region may correspond to one paragraph or asquare area with a predetermined diagonal. Control circuitry 504 mayidentify the text contained in that area and may generate new text thatis in a font size that is 2×, 3× or some predetermined or user specifiedvalue. The new text may be provided as the magnified version of thecontent over which the digit, stylus or stencil is positioned.Alternatively or in addition, control circuitry 504 may capture an imageof the square area and transmit the image to the image processing engineto enhance the image and magnify the image by 2×, 3× or somepredetermined or user specified value. These magnified portions may beprovided as the supplemental content that is presented in place offirst/second portions 110 and/or 120.

At step 880, a determination is made as to whether a QR code is detectedin the first portion. In response to determining that QR code isdetected in the first portion, the process proceeds to step 890,otherwise the process proceeds to step 892.

At step 890, supplemental content is obtained from a server based oninformation obtained from the QR code. For example, control circuitry504 may process the QR code to identify a URL specified or associatedwith the QR code. Control circuitry 504 may access the website andobtain some or all of the content from the website as the supplementalcontent.

At step 892, a database is searched based on the first set of keywordsto obtain supplemental content related to the first portion of the printmedia. For example, control circuitry 504 may transmit some or all ofthe keywords to a database that stores images or media generated by theuser, an editor, a content source, and/or friends of the user on asocial network to identify supplemental content that has metadata thatmatches at least one of the keywords in the first set.

At step 894, a display of the supplemental content is positioned usingthe augmented reality device over the second portion of the print media.For example, control circuitry 504 may replace all or some of thecontent/images of the supplemental content in second portion 120 withthe supplemental content retrieved that relates to first portion 110.For example, control circuitry 504 may present media 220 or a playlistof content in place of the content that is in second portion 120. Thismedia 220 may include pictures taken by the user when the user visitedthe city mentioned in first portion 110, posts or comments made byfriends of the user on a social network about the city and/or any othersupplemental content discussed above. Media 220 that replaces thecontent in second portion 120 can only be seen through augmented realitydevice 230, and to another user who is not viewing print media 200through device 230, print media 200 looks like print media 100 wherenone of the content on the print media is modified.

It is contemplated that the steps or descriptions of FIG. 8 may be usedwith any other embodiment of this disclosure. In addition, the steps anddescriptions described in relation to FIG. 8 may be done in alternativeorders or in parallel to further the purposes of this disclosure. Forexample, each of these steps may be performed in any order or inparallel or substantially simultaneously to reduce lag or increase thespeed of the system or method. Any of these steps may also be skipped oromitted from the process. Furthermore, it should be noted that any ofthe devices or equipment discussed in relation to FIGS. 5-6 could beused to perform one or more of the steps in FIG. 8 .

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a detailed illustrative process for processingan area of print media in accordance with some embodiments of thedisclosure. It should be noted that process 900 or any step thereofcould be performed on, or provided by, any of the devices shown in FIGS.5-6 . For example, process 900 may be executed by control circuitry 504(FIG. 5 ) as instructed by a media guidance application implemented on auser device (e.g., augmented reality device embodied in user equipmentdevices 602, 604, and/or 606 (FIG. 6 )) in order to process an area ofprint media. In addition, one or more steps of process 900 may beincorporated into or combined with one or more steps of any otherprocess or embodiment (e.g., as described in relation to FIGS. 1, 2, and7-12 ).

At step 910, the process for processing the area of the print mediabegins. For example, control circuitry 504 begins this process toperform step 820 (FIG. 8 ).

At step 920, image analysis is performed on the area to detect an objectseparating a first collection of text from a second collection of text.For example, an image processing engine may analyze the image of printmedia captured by device 230 to detect borders 130, 132 and 140 thatseparate different collections of text.

At step 930, a collection is selected for heading analysis. For example,the text between borders 130 and 132 is selected for heading analysis.

At step 940, font sizes of text in the selected collection of text arecomputed. At step 950, a determination is made as to whether more thanone font size was computed in step 940. In response to determining thatmore than one font size was computed, the process proceeds to step 952,otherwise the process proceeds to step 956.

At step 952, amounts of text in the selected collection in eachrespective font size are determined.

At step 954, a determination is made that a heading of the selectedcollection corresponds to the amount of text in the largest font size.For example, the image processing engine may determine that heading 122includes text that is larger in font size than any other text in theregion between borders 130 and 132.

At step 956, a determination is made that the selected collection doesnot have a heading.

At step 958, the selected collection is combined with another collectionthat is adjacent with a heading. For example, the image processingengine may determine that text 124 does not include a heading and inresponse may combine it with nearby text including heading 122.

At step 960, a determination is made as to whether additionalcollections of text are left to analyze. In response to determining thatadditional collections remain, the process proceeds to step 930,otherwise the process proceeds to step 970.

At step 970, in response to determining that the first and secondcollections of text include respective headings, the first collection oftext is associated with the first portion and the second collection oftext is associated with the second portion.

It is contemplated that the steps or descriptions of FIG. 9 may be usedwith any other embodiment of this disclosure. In addition, the steps anddescriptions described in relation to FIG. 9 may be done in alternativeorders or in parallel to further the purposes of this disclosure. Forexample, each of these steps may be performed in any order or inparallel or substantially simultaneously to reduce lag or increase thespeed of the system or method. Any of these steps may also be skipped oromitted from the process. Furthermore, it should be noted that any ofthe devices or equipment discussed in relation to FIGS. 5-6 could beused to perform one or more of the steps in FIG. 9 .

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a detailed illustrative process for searchinga database based on a set of keywords from print media in accordancewith some embodiments of the disclosure. It should be noted that process1000 or any step thereof could be performed on, or provided by, any ofthe devices shown in FIGS. 5-6 . For example, process 1000 may beexecuted by control circuitry 504 (FIG. 5 ) as instructed by a mediaguidance application implemented on a user device (e.g., augmentedreality device embodied in user equipment devices 602, 604, and/or 606(FIG. 6 )) in order to search the database based on a set of keywords.In addition, one or more steps of process 1000 may be incorporated intoor combined with one or more steps of any other process or embodiment(e.g., as described in relation to FIGS. 1, 2, and 7-12 ).

At step 1010, the process for searching the database based on the firstset of keywords begins. For example, control circuitry 504 begins thisprocess to perform step 892 (FIG. 8 ).

At step 1020, a determination is made that a keyword of the first set ofkeywords relates to a geographical area. For example, control circuitry504 may determine that the first set of keywords includes a name of acity. Accordingly, control circuitry 504 may define the geographicalarea to be GPS coordinates associated with the name of the city.

At step 1030, a collection of media assets generated by the user isaccessed from the database. For example, control circuitry 504 mayaccess a local or remote database to obtain or identify pictures andvideos generated or captured by the user.

At step 1040, metadata associated with the collection of media assets isretrieved. For example, control circuitry 504 may retrieve for eachmedia asset metadata including GPS coordinates and time/date stamps.

At step 1050, a given media asset associated with metadata that matchesthe geographical location is identified. For example, control circuitry504 may compare the GPS coordinates associated with the media assetsgenerated by the user with the GPS coordinates of the city. If the GPScoordinates of the media assets are within the boundaries of the GPScoordinates of the city, control circuitry 504 may determine that thegiven media asset matches the geographical location of the print media.

At step 1060, a determination is made as to whether additional mediaassets in the collection are associated with metadata that matches thegeographical location. In response to determining that additional mediaassets are associated with the metadata that matches the location, theprocess proceeds to step 1062, otherwise the process proceeds to step1080.

At step 1062, the given media asset and each additional media asset areadded to a playlist. For example, control circuitry 504 may store themedia assets in a playlist and order the media assets according tovarious criteria (e.g., chronologically by time and/or date, by distancebased on GPS coordinates, by type of media asset, by source, etc.).

At step 1070, the playlist of media assets is provided as thesupplemental content.

At step 1080, the identified given media asset is provided as thesupplemental content.

It is contemplated that the steps or descriptions of FIG. 10 may be usedwith any other embodiment of this disclosure. In addition, the steps anddescriptions described in relation to FIG. 10 may be done in alternativeorders or in parallel to further the purposes of this disclosure. Forexample, each of these steps may be performed in any order or inparallel or substantially simultaneously to reduce lag or increase thespeed of the system or method. Any of these steps may also be skipped oromitted from the process. Furthermore, it should be noted that any ofthe devices or equipment discussed in relation to FIGS. 5-6 could beused to perform one or more of the steps in FIG. 10 .

FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a detailed illustrative process for searchinga database based on a set of keywords from print media in accordancewith some embodiments of the disclosure. It should be noted that process1100 or any step thereof could be performed on, or provided by, any ofthe devices shown in FIGS. 5-6 . For example, process 1100 may beexecuted by control circuitry 504 (FIG. 5 ) as instructed by a mediaguidance application implemented on a user device (e.g., augmentedreality device embodied in user equipment devices 602, 604, and/or 606(FIG. 6 )) in order to search the database based on a set of keywords.In addition, one or more steps of process 1100 may be incorporated intoor combined with one or more steps of any other process or embodiment(e.g., as described in relation to FIGS. 1, 2, and 7-12 ).

At step 1110, the process for searching the database based on the firstset of keywords begins. For example, control circuitry 504 begins thisprocess to perform step 892 (FIG. 8 ).

At step 1120, a list of content in the print media is accessed from thedatabase. For example, control circuitry 504 may access a serverassociated with a source of the newspaper (if the print media is anewspaper) and obtain a list of all the articles and pages associatedwith those articles from the source. Control circuitry 504 may transmitto the server the name of the newspaper and date associated with thenewspaper.

At step 1130, other content that is related to the first set of keywordsis identified from the list of content. For example, control circuitry504 may determine that the first set of keywords corresponding to firstportion 110 which is on page 1 relate to weather, which is alsodescribed further in a weather section on page 10.

At step 1140, a determination is made that the other content is locatedin a second page of the print media.

At step 1150, the other content and a reference to the second page ofthe print media are provided as the supplemental content. For example,control circuitry 504 may obtain all or a portion of the article that isrelated to the weather that is on page 10 of the newspaper and presentthat as supplemental content on page 1 together with first portion 110.

It is contemplated that the steps or descriptions of FIG. 11 may be usedwith any other embodiment of this disclosure. In addition, the steps anddescriptions described in relation to FIG. 11 may be done in alternativeorders or in parallel to further the purposes of this disclosure. Forexample, each of these steps may be performed in any order or inparallel or substantially simultaneously to reduce lag or increase thespeed of the system or method. Any of these steps may also be skipped oromitted from the process. Furthermore, it should be noted that any ofthe devices or equipment discussed in relation to FIGS. 5-6 could beused to perform one or more of the steps in FIG. 11 .

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a detailed illustrative process for presentinggeographically specific supplemental content over print media inaccordance with some embodiments of the disclosure. It should be notedthat process 1200 or any step thereof could be performed on, or providedby, any of the devices shown in FIGS. 5-6 . For example, process 1200may be executed by control circuitry 504 (FIG. 5 ) as instructed by amedia guidance application implemented on a user device (e.g., augmentedreality device embodied in user equipment devices 602, 604, and/or 606(FIG. 6 )) in order to present geographically specific supplementalcontent over print media. In addition, one or more steps of process 1200may be incorporated into or combined with one or more steps of any otherprocess or embodiment (e.g., as described in relation to FIGS. 1, 2, and7-12 ).

At step 1210, a determination that the print media is associated with afirst geographical location is made.

At step 1220, a determination that the first set of keywords associatedwith the first portion are associated with the first geographicallocation is made. For example, control circuitry 504 may determine thatthe first set of keywords includes a name of a city. Accordingly,control circuitry 504 may define the first geographical location to beGPS coordinates associated with the name of the city.

At step 1230, a detection is made that the user is currently in a secondgeographical location. For example, control circuitry 504 may retrieveGPS information from device 230 to determine the second geographicallocation of the user.

At step 1240, a determination is made as to whether the secondgeographical location is different from the first geographical locationby more than a threshold amount. In response to determining that thesecond location is different from the first by more than a thresholdamount, the process proceeds to step 1242, otherwise the processproceeds to step 1230. For example, control circuitry 504 may determinewhether the user's current geographical location (e.g., the secondgeographical location) is more than a threshold distance (over 100miles) from the geographical locale of the print media.

At step 1242, subject matter related to the first set of keywords isidentified. For example, control circuitry 504 may determine whether thekeywords include reference to weather information (e.g., if the wordsinclude temperatures and/or words related to weather (storm, winter,snow, etc.)) and if so, the subject matter may be determined to beweather. Alternatively, control circuitry 504 may determine whether thekeywords include reference to politics (e.g., names of a president orcongress member) and if so, the subject matter may be determined to bepolitics. Alternatively, control circuitry 504 may determine whether thekeywords include reference to sports (e.g., the words football, names ofplayers, names of stadiums, score information) and if so, the subjectmatter may be determined to be sports.

At step 1250, a determination is made as to whether the subject matterrelates to weather. In response to determining that the subject matteris related to weather, the process proceeds to step 1252, otherwise theprocess proceeds to step 1270.

At step 1252, weather information for the second geographical locationis retrieved. For example, control circuitry 504 may access a weathersource (e.g., a weather website) and provide the GPS coordinates ofdevice 230 to obtain current and future weather information for theuser's current location.

At step 1260, weather information in the first portion is replaced withthe weather information for the second geographical location. Forexample, control circuitry 504 may replace temperature and weatherinformation in first portion 110 pertaining to the location of the printmedia with temperature and weather information 210 for the user'scurrent location. For example, weather information pertaining to PalmBeach may be replaced with weather information for New York if the useris currently in New York and the print media is for Palm Beach.

At step 1270, content associated with the subject matter and the secondgeographical location is retrieved. For example, if the subject matteris sports and football, control circuitry 504 may retrieve sportingevent information for a football team local to the current geographicallocation of the user.

At step 1280, the retrieved content is generated for display using theaugmented reality device in the first portion replacing at least aportion of information in the first portion. For example, controlcircuitry 504 may replace a football team score information associatedwith the location of the print media with the football team scoreinformation of the team local to the user.

It is contemplated that the steps or descriptions of FIG. 12 may be usedwith any other embodiment of this disclosure. In addition, the steps anddescriptions described in relation to FIG. 12 may be done in alternativeorders or in parallel to further the purposes of this disclosure. Forexample, each of these steps may be performed in any order or inparallel or substantially simultaneously to reduce lag or increase thespeed of the system or method. Any of these steps may also be skipped oromitted from the process. Furthermore, it should be noted that any ofthe devices or equipment discussed in relation to FIGS. 5-6 could beused to perform one or more of the steps in FIG. 12 .

The processes discussed above are intended to be illustrative and notlimiting. One skilled in the art would appreciate that the steps of theprocesses discussed herein may be omitted, modified, combined, and/orrearranged, and any additional steps may be performed without departingfrom the scope of the invention. More generally, the above disclosure ismeant to be exemplary and not limiting. Only the claims that follow aremeant to set bounds as to what the present invention includes.Furthermore, it should be noted that the features and limitationsdescribed in any one embodiment may be applied to any other embodimentherein, and flowcharts or examples relating to one embodiment may becombined with any other embodiment in a suitable manner, done indifferent orders, or done in parallel. In addition, the systems andmethods described herein may be performed in real time. It should alsobe noted that the systems and/or methods described above may be appliedto, or used in accordance with, other systems and/or methods.

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 52. A method comprising: identifying weatherinformation in a content item that is viewable through an augmentedreality device; in response to determining that the identified weatherinformation describes weather for a first geographical location that isdifferent than a second geographical location of the augmented realitydevice: retrieving weather information that describes weather for thesecond geographical location of the augmented reality device; andgenerating for display, using the augmented reality device, theretrieved weather information such that the retrieved weatherinformation overlays the identified weather information in the contentitem.
 53. The method of claim 52, wherein generating for display theretrieved weather information for the second geographical location suchthat the retrieved weather information overlays the identified weatherinformation in the content item comprises: determining a position of theidentified weather information in the content item; and generating fordisplay a virtual image of the retrieved weather information for thesecond geographical location as an overlay at the position of theidentified weather information.
 54. The method of claim 52, whereindetermining that identified weather information describes weather for afirst geographical location that is different than a second geographicallocation of the augmented reality device comprises: identifying one ormore keywords in the content item indicative of the first geographicallocation; retrieving GPS information corresponding to the augmentedreality device; determining, based on the GPS information, the secondgeographical location for the augmented reality device; and determiningthat the second geographical location does not match the one or morekeywords indicative of the first geographical location.
 55. The methodof claim 52, wherein determining that the identified weather informationdescribes weather for a first geographical location that is differentthan a second geographical location of the augmented reality devicecomprises: computing a distance between the first geographical locationand the second geographical location; and in response to determiningthat the distance is greater than a threshold distance, determining thatthe second geographical location is different from the firstgeographical location.
 56. The method of claim 52, further comprising:accessing a database comprising weather information; and retrievingweather information that describes weather for the second geographicallocation from the database.
 57. The method of claim 52, furthercomprising: detecting a visual focus through the augmented realitydevice on a portion of the content item; and in response to detectingthe visual focus, retrieving supplemental content associated with theportion of the content item.
 58. The method of claim 52, furthercomprising: accessing a user profile; retrieving supplemental contentbased on one or more user preferences of the user profile; andgenerating for display, using the augmented reality device, thesupplemental content.
 59. The method of claim 58, wherein thesupplemental content comprises video content.
 60. The method of claim52, wherein the content item comprises print content.
 61. The method ofclaim 52, wherein the content item is displayed on another devicedifferent from the augmented reality device.
 62. A system comprising: anaugmented reality device; and control circuitry configured to: identifyweather information in a content item that is viewable through theaugmented reality device; in response to determining that the identifiedweather information describes weather for a first geographical locationthat is different than a second geographical location of the augmentedreality device: retrieve weather information that describes weather forthe second geographical location of the augmented reality device; andgenerate for display, using the augmented reality device, the retrievedweather information such that the retrieved weather information overlaysthe identified weather information in the content item.
 63. The systemof claim 62, wherein the control circuitry, when generating for displaythe retrieved weather information for the second geographical locationsuch that the retrieved weather information overlays the identifiedweather information in the content item, is configured to: determine aposition of the identified weather information in the content item; andgenerate for display a virtual image of the retrieved weatherinformation for the second geographical location as an overlay at theposition of the identified weather information.
 64. The system of claim62, wherein the control circuitry, when determining that identifiedweather information describes weather for a first geographical locationthat is different than a second geographical location of the augmentedreality device, is configured to: identify one or more keywords in thecontent item indicative of the first geographical location; retrieve GPSinformation corresponding to the augmented reality device; determine,based on the GPS information, the second geographical location for theaugmented reality device; and determine that the second geographicallocation does not match the one or more keywords indicative of the firstgeographical location.
 65. The system of claim 62, wherein the controlcircuitry, when determining that the identified weather informationdescribes weather for a first geographical location that is differentthan a second geographical location of the augmented reality device, isconfigured to: compute a distance between the first geographicallocation and the second geographical location; and in response todetermining that the distance is greater than a threshold distance,determine that the second geographical location is different from thefirst geographical location.
 66. The system of claim 62, wherein thecontrol circuitry is further configured to: access a database comprisingweather information; and retrieve weather information that describesweather for the second geographical location from the database.
 67. Thesystem of claim 62, wherein the control circuitry is further configuredto: detect a visual focus through the augmented reality device on aportion of the content item; and in response to detecting the visualfocus, retrieve supplemental content associated with the portion of thecontent item.
 68. The system of claim 62, wherein the control circuitryis further configured to: access a user profile; retrieve supplementalcontent based on one or more user preferences of the user profile; andgenerate for display, using the augmented reality device, thesupplemental content.
 69. The system of claim 68, wherein thesupplemental content comprises video content.
 70. The system of claim62, wherein the content item comprises print content.
 71. The system ofclaim 62, wherein the content item is displayed on another devicedifferent from the augmented reality device.